This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mei: nfc: fix memory leak in error path
to the 3.16-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mei-nfc-fix-memory-leak-in-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 8e8248b1369c97c7bb6f8bcaee1f05deeabab8ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 18:07:57 +0300
Subject: mei: nfc: fix memory leak in error path
From: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 8e8248b1369c97c7bb6f8bcaee1f05deeabab8ef upstream.
NFC will leak buffer if send failed.
Use single exit point that does the freeing
Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/mei/nfc.c | 11 +++++------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/nfc.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/nfc.c
@@ -342,9 +342,10 @@ static int mei_nfc_send(struct mei_cl_de
ndev = (struct mei_nfc_dev *) cldev->priv_data;
dev = ndev->cl->dev;
+ err = -ENOMEM;
mei_buf = kzalloc(length + MEI_NFC_HEADER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!mei_buf)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ goto out;
hdr = (struct mei_nfc_hci_hdr *) mei_buf;
hdr->cmd = MEI_NFC_CMD_HCI_SEND;
@@ -354,12 +355,9 @@ static int mei_nfc_send(struct mei_cl_de
hdr->data_size = length;
memcpy(mei_buf + MEI_NFC_HEADER_SIZE, buf, length);
-
err = __mei_cl_send(ndev->cl, mei_buf, length + MEI_NFC_HEADER_SIZE);
if (err < 0)
- return err;
-
- kfree(mei_buf);
+ goto out;
if (!wait_event_interruptible_timeout(ndev->send_wq,
ndev->recv_req_id == ndev->req_id, HZ)) {
@@ -368,7 +366,8 @@ static int mei_nfc_send(struct mei_cl_de
} else {
ndev->req_id++;
}
-
+out:
+ kfree(mei_buf);
return err;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.16/mei-fix-return-value-on-disconnect-timeout.patch
queue-3.16/mei-nfc-fix-memory-leak-in-error-path.patch
queue-3.16/mei-reset-client-state-on-queued-connect-request.patch
queue-3.16/mei-start-disconnect-request-timer-consistently.patch
queue-3.16/mei-don-t-schedule-suspend-in-pm-idle.patch
queue-3.16/mei-reset-client-connection-state-on-timeout.patch
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